I have written you per Joost Michielsen's ship and communicated to you my experience here, which is that I am forced, contrary to my oath, to divulge what I have written, or what has been executed in my presence, against public or private persons generally and individually ; also, in what a painful position I find myself, on account of another's act, &a. Relying on you, I shall expect, on the first opportunity, your favorable diligence to avert my ruin. If the Redress be not confirmed, and if it do not arrive by the first vessels, I shall be obliged to sell my little property and go back with my wife and children. Otherwise I must waste it

altogether in poverty, inasmuch as every effort is made use of here to ruin me and to take the bread out of my mouth. I shouldhave sent the papers in the case of Melyn altogether, but as nobody would consent to collatethem with me, not even Allard Anthony, notwithstanding I had requested him to do so, and I dare not trust the documents in my house through fear that Stuyvesant would remove all my papers as he proposed and threatened, it was therefore out of my power to send them over. Had he been willing to permit me to go, I should have carried them with me. I doubt not but such unheard of mode of proceeding will be taken into consideration, and we released at once from this dreadful yoke. I have had every intention to build on a lot that